TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groothuis,Douglas R.
TI  - Christian apologetics: a comprehensive case for biblical faith 
SN  - 9780830839353 (casebound : alk. paper)
AV  - BT1103 .G76 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill., Nottingham, England
PB  - IVP Academic, Apollos
KW  - Apologetics
KW  - God (Christianity)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Apologetic preliminaries.  Introduction : hope, despair and knowing reality ;  The Biblical basis for apologetics ;  Apologetic method : evaluating worldviews ;  The Christian worldview ;  Distortions of the Christian worldview, or, The God I don't believe in ;  Truth defined and defended ;  Why truth matters most : searching for truth in postmodern times ;  Faith, risk and rationality : the prudential incentives to Christian faith --  The case for Christian theism.  In defense of theistic arguments ;  The ontological argument ;  The cosmological arguments : a cause for the cosmos ;  The design argument : cosmic fine-tuning ;  Origins, design and Darwinism ;  Evidence for intelligent design ;  The moral argument for God ;  The argument from religious experience ;  The uniqueness of humanity : consciousness and cognition ;  Deposed royalty : Pascal's anthropological argument ;  Jesus of Nazareth : how historians can know him and why it matters / by Craig L. Blomberg ;  The claims, credentials and achievements of Jesus Christ ;  Defending the Incarnation ;  The Resurrection of Jesus --  Objections to Christian theism.  Religious pluralism : many religions, one truth ;  Apologetics and the challenge of Islam ;  The problem of evil : dead ends and the Christian answer ; Conclusion : take it to the streets
N2  - "For millennia the Christian worldview has offered answers to our most profound and challenging questions, What gives life meaning? Is there hope? In this systematic text, Douglas Groothuis skillfully employs a cumulative case for the Christian faith, allowing several lines of argumentation and evidence to converge. This work masterfully addresses what matters most"--Provided by publisher
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